Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the first time the boys have finished first in two years. It was tough surviving such a cold day.

John Walters

This is the first time that we've recorded this kind of relationship between boys' and girls' drug use. In the past, boys have had higher rates of use - and significantly higher rates of use at certain times in the past.

Shannon Miller

They get to miss a day of school for the trip. They are very excited about that. It should be a fun weekend and we really wanted to reward the boys for all of the hard work they have done.

They handle (the course) much better then the last time we were there at the (Pre-Region) Invitational. The boys had a good day on the course and I was proud of their efforts.

They don't come more glamorous than that. Our boys are looking good, we'll be up for it. This is another big stepping stone for the club.

They had a very good season. I'm very proud of our boys and what they have accomplished.

They fought back several times and got back in the game. There was a lot of intense defense at the end. Our boys really stepped up and got some key steals and made a couple of shots.

You can't just snatch the boy down out of that tree,

This pattern (of gender imbalance) may be teaching girls and boys that the lives of males and their stories are more important and valuable than those of females.

This meet was held in super-humid conditions. But the thing I liked most was our times improved. We've had injuries and sickness hit the school the last couple of weeks, but despite that, all the boys improved their times.

There was a young boy who suffered third-degree burns waiting for help on his roof with his disabled mother,

Frank Hadden

There was a tremendously committed and determined effort from our boys,

There were people who knew them, who are members of our church and that sort of thing. So it does bring it close to home, and we just regret it for these young boys and their families.

There is one confirmed case, the girl, and three suspect cases under investigation who have died. They include her uncle, the boy in the south and another case.

It's been six, seven, eight years anyway. It was a team we really wanted to get and we couldn't do it. But we were really fired up coming into tonight's game and the boys came through.

It seems the boy used to feel insulted on hearing these remarks and decided to take this extreme step.

It seems like we've started (in the heavyweights) the last three, four matches. It helps when you have our better boys coming up later. I don't mind finishing up that way.

It's a big boys' game of capture the flag.

Jenny Nimmo

I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

It wasn't just my stomach that was bloated, my whole entire body. I was like the Pillsbury Dough Boy -- I mean, I was puffed up.

It was always going to be a fast finish when the VIS boys got together and Brad surprised us because we didn't think he had much petrol left in the tank after being away for so long.

It was a lovely day, so quiet. My husband, Tim, and I were skiing with our two boys and a friend in Yellowstone National Park on Dec. 30, when all of a sudden, we heard the noise of a snowmobile.

Gertrude Stein

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Georgette Heyer

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!

Horace

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

Herman Melville

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Henry David Thoreau

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

Henry David Thoreau

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Henry David Thoreau

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Jill Scott

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'

Erma Bombeck

With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.

Erma Bombeck

With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.

Erma Bombeck

Every puppy should have a boy.